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Performing a Wicca Ritual isn´t terribly complex but it is important that you understand all aspects behind such a ritual. There are three Magickal acts in most Wiccan Rituals. For detail beyond what I give here, I suggest Buckland's Complete Book of Witchcraft, chapter 11, and on Magick in general, Crowley's Magick in Theory and Practice is indispensable.

These three acts are Casting the Circle (detailed in Chapter Four, and in Part three of this work, named "A Book of Light",) Forming the Cone of Power and Goal-directed release, and Drawing Down the Moon/Sun. Both Drawing Down and Cone of Power Magicks require your confidence in the Circle you've cast, so practice.

The Cone of Power is raised energy focused on a point above the exact center of the cast circle. The Energy may be raised by chanting, dancing, toneing or any other form of power raising that works for you. Once the cone is begun, the energy is increased and increased until it eventually explodes from the tension point of the top of the circle and is directed, usually by visualization, towards a goal, either something personal, like the healing of a friend or the acquisition of a new job, or something esoteric and spiritual like "gifting" it to the Gods or the Earth. By using visualization, imagination or well-trained "other sight" one can see the power as a field of swirling light which fills the circle and is contained by the Metaphysical boundaries of the Circle and the Will of the Circle's caster(s.)

Drawing Down The Moon and Drawing Down The Sun are trad-related rituals in which the Gods are invoked into a person. Usually this involves an elaborate ritual, with the reading of one of the versions of the Charge of the Goddess, and similar male charges are read for the solar versions, and the "gods and goddesses" that speak within the ceremony are from books, but I have seen the occasional Ecstatic Wiccan group where the person who has the Gods "drawn into" them actually seems to "channel" another being who speaks to the coven, and once, on a Beltane night, Lady Martia, a very respectable and not easily excitable Wiccan Priestess of some forty years, began to recite the Charge and was seen to change drastically before about thirty people, and cease reading it. A surprised look on her face, this priestess told us how pleased she was that we kept our rites that evening, and told a coven member who was infertile that he and his wife would have a child by Imbolc, whereupon the priestess fainted, and didn't come 'round for several minutes.

I suppose if I were reading that, I couldn't believe it, but I was there, and I believe that we met a Priestess of old that night, (no one thinks it was a Goddess, although I've heard stories of Goddesses and astral beings jumping in to ceremonies and interrupting them to give important news, warnings and the like,) and she approved, so we must be doing something right! (Their child, a boy, was conceived that night or thereabouts and born January 20th, 1995) Magick, like any science, requires ethics, and practice without ethics or in the form of Magick for Magick's sake may result in any number of problems. As with any science, use caution in your experimentation and start small. Wicca rituals can be very powerful, so use them wisely.